{"id":4411,"date":"2003-08-12T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/12\/4411\/"},"modified":"2003-08-12T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T23:30:23","slug":"mochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4411","title":{"rendered":"Mochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mochi mochi mochi.  Recently I got the two big mochi recipe books:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1566473365\">Hawaii&#8217;s Best Mochi Recipies<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0967385105\">Unbearably Good!  Mochi Lovers&#8217; Cookbook<\/a>.  But so far I haven&#8217;t found any savory dishes listed which <u>use<\/u> mochi, only different ways to make dessert mochi.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nMochi melts like cheese, but since it is only rice and water, there is no fat.  The rice mochi is made from is soft and sweeter than normal white rice.  I had it when my friends Kazue and Kaori treated me and Aaron to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greggman.com\/japan\/okonomiyaki\/okonomiyaki.htm\">okonomiyaki<\/a> in Tokyo. We also had an appetizer at a nicer restaurant which were kind of like taquitos, but with more Japanese ingredients and mochi instead of cheese.  I don&#8217;t know what it was called or how it was made.  Yet.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nWhile surfing I stumbled onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/scocasso\/mochi\/mochi01\/mochi01.htm#19\">Kudzu Mochi<\/a>.  Insane!  Apparently you can make a unrefined &#8220;black sugar&#8221; from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hower.org\/Kudzu\/Kudzu\/index.html\">kudzu<\/a>,&#8221; a plant which people in the South have grown to love due to its use as a ground cover in the 1930&#8217;s ( the vine is even more horrible than ivy and can destroy buildings).  But you CAN&#8217;T BUY this black sugar due to intense sugar industry lobbying.  Bizarre.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mochi mochi mochi. Recently I got the two big mochi recipe books: Hawaii&#8217;s Best Mochi Recipies and Unbearably Good! Mochi Lovers&#8217; Cookbook. But so far I haven&#8217;t found any savory dishes listed which use mochi, only different ways to make dessert mochi. Mochi melts like cheese, but since it is only rice and water, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}